1) unless you’re not in the industry, why is this news to you? It’s been this way since the dawn of time within the legal industry.

2) some (if you ask me, I’d say most) would take the position that 3.5x is little for the hours put in.

Also, paying 2.5 for the second half of TC is insane to me and what’s worse is the fact that this 2.5 is a deliberated amount. The level of exploitation of the industry has reached a new high. Little surprise if there is a shortage of lawyers in the coming years, and the ministry and stakeholders backpaddling this decision.

Although if history were to repeat, the backpaddling would make much of a diff anyw